Just an observation, but as a monastery in Scotland, should you not use the term Holy Thursday? Maundy Thursday is really only used in England and it’s only Episcopalians in Scotland, or the High English as Scots call them, who use this term. Daniel

@ Dev ThakurThe reason for different head coverings does not have anything to do with Rites. Those wearing the biretta are either priests or those with final vows who are studying for the priesthood. Those wearing the zucchetto are either coadjutor brothers, those studying for the priesthood with temporary vows or novices. Those with no head covering are postulants.

I see that John, Marquess of Bute,(1847-1900) in his translation of The Roman Breviary specifically calls the day "Maundy Thursday. Fifth Day of the Great Week, whereon was instituted the Lord's Supper."

The Marquess was a Stuart, born on the Isle of Bute, decendant of the Scottish royal House and Rector of St. Andrew's University: a Scot and an authority, I think we need look no further and be in peace.

A further point is that this blog is read in many countries outside our beloved Scotland and our United Kingdom; the word is traditionally associated with the day. "Holy" is as well. But the old word "Maundy" seems to have a special claim in our language; which I like.

Sorry father but I have to disagree. You would never hear it called Maundy in Ireland and an American friend says it's never called that in the USA. A canadian priest says he has never heard it used in Canada. The aristocracy, especially in the days of John, Marquis of Bute, tended to be very anglicised and took the view that the English way is the right way. Sadly, there are still some Scots who think that. Daniel.

Daniel,Who are you to make such a problem about what they put on their own blog? It's not your blog; you don't own it or them; you don't have any authority over them, and neither is their blog done solely for your benefit! Leave them alone and enjoy looking at the pictures like the rest of us instead of nit-picking over utterly inconsequential things!!!

To Daniel:You are welcome to disagree. We accept the "English way" as the right way since it is our Mother tongue so we are all to some degree, and happily I hope, "anglicised".

In the use of "Maundy" I am most peacefully anglicised; it has been in our mother tongue since the 1400's and comes from the Antiphon of the traditional Latin Mass: "Mandatum novum do vobis (Antiphona I Jo. 13,34). In Old French the Latin "Mandatum" is rendered as "mandé" and from Old French our Catholic ancestors adopted and used the word "Maundy" for what is also "Holy" Thursday.

Maundy is therefore:Totally Catholic, totally traditional, rooted in the Antiphon of the Mass of the day,and has been historically absorbed into our deeply rich and varied mother tongue.

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